Pinkie Pie Wins $60K Again for Hacking Chrome

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A teenage hacker, known only as Pinkie Pie, won a cool $60,000
from Google for his full exploit of the company's Chrome browser
in Malaysia today (Oct. 10).

His hack involved impersonating the extensions manager and
breaking out of Chrome's sandbox, an isolated environment for
untrusted applications to run in without access to a computer's
essential functions and sensitive data.

"Once he was impersonating the extensions manager, Pinkie used
two more bugs to finally break out of the sandbox, Google said. “With these two bugs Pinkie
was able to install and run his own NPAPI plug-in that
executed outside the sandbox at full user privilege."

But this isn't the first time Pinkie Pie, whose name is
presumably a reference to a "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"
character, has won big with his hacking skills. The anonymous
teen compromised Chrome in Vancouver at the
CanSecWest conference in March, netting him another $60,000.

Out of all the entries for Pwnium 2, Pinkie Pie's was the only
successful one. Google's security teams have already pushed out
an update with a congratulations to Pinkie Pie for "another
beautiful piece of work."

As technology becomes ever more pervasive in our lives, hackers
become younger and younger. Many turn to digital vandalism and
mischief out of boredom, but Pinkie Pie is an excellent example
of how a young hacker can indulge his desires and make a lot of
money doing it.